Art 305 - Art and Mass Culture » Summer 2020 » Baroque Quiz No. 4

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Question #1
The function of the French Royal Academy of Fine Arts was:
A.   all of these options
B.   to establish and maintain artistic standards
C.   none of these options
D.   to use painting as propaganda for the monarch's version of history
E.   to develop a complex curriculum based on a rationalistic philosophy
Question #2
The work of Italian Baroque artists Bernini, Caravaggio, and Gentileschi was characterized by:
A.   all of these options
B.   a focus on religious imagery
C.   none of these options
D.   emotional intensity
E.   dramatic contrast between light and dark
Question #3
The device known as the camera obscura is:
A.   a box with a small hole through which an image can be projected and traced
B.   all of these options
C.   a photographic process for developing film
D.   none of these options
E.   an object that used a box, a small hole, and plastic film
Question #4
During the Baroque period, the Catholic Church:
A.   directed artists like Bernini to focus on real life to improve and uplift the image
B.   emphasized humor as a way to speak to the masses
C.   emphasized the printed text as a way to speak to the masses
D.   directed artists like Caravaggio to use everyday people as models in order to preserve human dignity
E.   emphasized the visual arts as a way to speak to the masses
Question #5
Caravaggio’s dramatic shifting of the vanishing point, light source, and position of main characters brought the viewer:
A.   none of these options
B.   into the scene with psychological distance
C.   into the scene with boldness and psychological connection
D.   into the scene with emotional void
E.   all of these options
Question #6
French absolutist monarch Louis XIV endeavored to shift the mythic base of culture from:
A.   none of these options
B.   God to humanistic naturalism
C.   God to king
D.   God to science
E.   all of these options
Question #7
Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun was:
A.   all of these options
B.   the most celebrated woman artist of her time
C.   one of the few female members of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture
D.   known for her portraits
E.   none of these options
Question #8
The term “propaganda” during this period:
A.   originated with Gentileschi’s use of painting to spread faith through emotion and art
B.   originated with the Church’s propagating faith through art
C.   originated with Louis XIV’s propagating royalty through art
D.   originated with Caravaggio’s use of live models to spread humanism through art
E.   originated with Bernini’s use of architecture to propagate faith in Louis XIV
Question #9
Jan Vermeer is known for his:
A.   portrayal of light and women in meditatively quiet interiors
B.   all of these options
C.   portraits of the Dutch king and his court
D.   none of these options
E.   historical scenes of the conquests of monarchies of Northern Europe
Question #10
The Counter Reformation was a response to:
A.   the audacity of Baroque period art
B.   none of these options
C.   the austerity of Northern European art
D.   the Protestant Reformation
E.   the Gothic Middle Ages

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